"He was probably playing some music, but he's not working on a record," said Big Boi.

"He's been recording songs for years. Kinda recording, kinda just stacking up, but structured record? Not yet," Sleep Brown added. "The story is that he was in the studio with [Dr. Dre's protege] Anderson .Paak when Anderson .Paak was working on his thing and he played him some songs to see if he wanted to work on one of them. I guess that guy was in there [and] heard the songs."

Big Boi then said he communicated with Andre about the possibility of a new album and he denied it.

"He personally hit us and said, 'Look man, if I was going to do this, y'all be the first to know,'" he explained.